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Intragastric balloon
(Springer Link, 2016)
Obesity is a serious, complex disease and both its treatment and management have remained a global medical challenge. It has been proven that obesity reduces the quality of life as well as life expectancy in patients and ...
Overweight and obesity: review and update
(Acta Gastroenterológica Latinoamericana, 2016-06)
Obesity is an epidemic with important health repercussions in addition to high treatment-related costs. Between 2006 and 2007 the WHO developed new assessment tools, which aren’t being globally used. In fact, there is no ...
Caracterización del ladrillo utilizado en la Catedral de Santo Domingo, Primada de América
(REHABEND, 2018)
En las últimas décadas, los materiales de construcción que conforman edificios históricos en República
Dominicana presentan un acelerado y avanzado deterioro. Por tal motivo, el objetivo principal de esta
investigación ...
Medical students’ perceptions about the added educational value of student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the Dominican Republic
(Global Health Research and Policy, 2016-12)
This purpose of this report was to examine the perceptions of medical students about the strengths, limitations, and recommendations for improvement of the first known student-run HIV/AIDS educational campaigns in the ...
Developing empathy in medical students
(ASME, 2019-10-01)
Some evidence indicates that physician empathy declines during medical training, which has made it the subject of much research. Qualitative studies are relevant in this context, focusing as they do on how students themselves ...
A survey of natural resource and national parks knowledge and attitudes of Dominican Republic citizens
(The Journal of Environmental Education, 2013-10-21)
The main purpose of this study was to ascertain the current level of ecological knowledge and attitudes of citizens of the Dominican Republic regarding national parks and natural resources. A cluster random sample of five ...
Endoscopic sutured gastroplasty: procedure evolution from first-in-man cases through current technique
(PublMed, 2018)
Endoscopic sutured gastroplasty (ESG) has evolved over time. With the advent of full-thickness endoscopic suturing, an efficient technique for ESG was developed and refined. This prospective first-in-man trial started in ...
Piper umbellatum L.: A comparative cross-cultural analysis of its medicinal uses and an ethnopharmacological evaluation
(Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2010)
This review assesses the botany, traditional medicinal uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology of P. umbellatum. Information on P. umbellatum was gathered via the internet (using Scirus, Google Scholar, CAB-Abstracts, ...
Hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment and control among older people in Latin America, India and China: a 10/66 cross-sectional population-based survey
(J Hypertens ., 2012)
To estimate the prevalence, social patterning, treatment and control of hypertension among older people in the 10/66 Dementia Research Group developing country sites. Cross-sectional surveys of SBP, hypertension, and ...
Correction of malpositioned lower lateral incisors in a two-phase nonextraction case.
(J Clin Orthod, 2013-08)
This report describes a mixed-dentition patient with bilateral malposition mandibular lateral incisors who was treated in two phases without extractions. Early treatment of a mandibular canine-lateral transposition increases ...